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  • Guarentees ...........LMAOJust been looking at the manual for newly aquired valhalla game from 1983 on page 4 it states.... "your valhala program cassette carries an unconditi…

    Or completeing all the old coupons to join clubs and mailing lists etc that were on flyers in some of the games.
    thx1138 thx1138 February 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games that wouldnt loadI had a few of these, and even after taking them bck some still didnt load first time :( anybody else have/had games like this The pain in the asses…

    ... was a small plastic lens that came bundled with the game ... of text on the screen that you would have to hole ... first game I played with that on was some helicopter sim ... (or something like that).

    Regarding tapes that were difficult to load ...
    Exit Exit February 2004 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... C64 which started off down that slippery slope.
    [/quote ... ; the C64 had games that were mutton dressed as lamb shyte ... around the "port anything that holds still long enough!" era ... account the possibility that one or even both were botched; compare ...
    TMR TMR February 2004 Games
  • spectrum, microdrive and printer in a briefcaseHi, My godfather gave me a breifcase with a spectrum, microdrive and printer built in, which he and some of his colleguses worked on for the uk mod …

    ... those custom-made computer cases that were advertised in the early-80s ... home computer mags - they were designed to snugly enclose a ...
    jil jil March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • First speccy game you ever ever played..Just having a play on Jet-Pac (on my +2 I hasten to add as I would never play a denied game on an emulator...no sireee ;) ) and suddenly realised tha…

    My mate had a speccy and the first games i saw on that were Zzoom, Spectal Invaders and then Slippery Sid !!!

    First game i ever bought was Jet Set Willy. Still remember that day !! Brings shivers to my spine ! Those were the days !
    psj3809 psj3809 March 2004 Games
  • Artist / Artists Required For 3 Brand-New Spectrum Game ProjectsHi all, I am currently looking for high quality sprite and background tile artists for 3 forthcoming Spectrum games I have on the go at the moment. …

    ... recommended a petition in that case and one of ... there's many more than that planned to come. :)
    that for now. There's Castlevania ... BASIC, particularly the ones that were made and entered into ... LCD suggested, to show that you are able and ...
    Sadako Sadako March 2004 Development
  • Anyone heard of these?I recently found a list of spectrum tapes I intended to buy (but never did) years ago. Most of them seem to be already dumped - or at least known of …

    ... and I'm not sure that they were released on their own ... on that. Only time will improve our infoseek information but were getting ... there :).

    One MIA title that I ... sure there's some MIAs that were released on C64 or CPC ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker March 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Original or Conversion?In a perfect world we would all, of course, have full access to all gaming pleasures on platforms new and old (as well as world peace, total harmony …

    ... enjoyable.

    Excellent games that were practically ruined on the spec ... were Kung Fu Master, rolling Thunder, ...
    Bluce_Ree Bluce_Ree March 2004 Games
  • Where you jealous of Commodore 64 owners?I most definitely WAS! A sad admission, I know. I knew they had me beaten when I went round to a mate's house and saw 'The Way of the Exploding Fist'…

    ... of things I wish there were available for my beloved Spectrum ... platform/shooter from System 3 that never saw the light on ... think to all the things that were great on the Spectrum and ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games that are impossible to complete due to bugs!I'm trying to compile a list of Speccy games that cannot be completed because of a bug (or simply bad programming)! Here's a few... [B]Frankie Goes …

    ... your previous post with that list of things you ... , but no more than that! This scores about 32 ... It seems quite a coincidence that we have both got up ... There are a couple of objects that I can't seem to ... I've tried carrying most objects when trying to pick these ...
    jil jil April 2004 Games
  • Old Classics?With nothing to do last night, and because I steadfastly refused to watch ?Sleepless in Seattle? with the missus, I found myself flicking through a c…

    games that were cutting edge (Knightlore, Manic Miner, ... .

    I'd say that the simplicity of Rebelstar over ... 100.

    The argument that follow ups deserve a place ... doesn't hold true now that most games are rehashes of ...
    Bluce_Ree Bluce_Ree April 2004 Games
  • EmuZWin supports 256 color gamesI am sorry starting new topic, but you see this info is important a bit: new version 2.4 of the EmuZWin is available to download, and it supports 25…

    ... in MM. For example, the objects that must be collected - they are ...
    Refrenz Refrenz April 2004 Emulators
  • Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…

    Remastering sound and vision to remove artifacts that were present in the originals is not the same as replacing scenes and dubbing audio.
    cyborg cyborg April 2004 Games
  • Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…

    ... some of the old classics that were not programmed for the later ... /> SpecMem
    [/quote]

    That does it. Beat'em lads ...
    GOC GOC April 2004 Games
  • Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…

    ... and vision to remove artifacts that were present in the originals is ...
    SpecMem SpecMem April 2004 Games
  • Retro Gamer - Magazinei've just bought issue 3 of Retro Gamer magazine (purchased in the local co-op). what a buzz it is to see the old posters and stuff again. wish i ha…

    ... seem that many games were affected by lazy programming of games that were mere ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2004 Games
  • GB Max SoftwareEllo chums... I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about GB Max Software? Specifically, if they have a list of games "by" them, and what they were…

    ... and I can remember things that were hidden but never compleately lost ... . I have to admit that there were a number of games wich ... I use to play, that still ... of hated them for they were horrible craked version, there was ...
    Arm73 Arm73 May 2004 Games
  • Cannot Find That Game. Again!Ok, I thought that game was called Spheroid, but I couldnt see it in the archive. I think its after-1986 game. Black background, greenish obstacles.…

    ... "His" translations were so irritatingly bad that some games were absolutely unplayable ( ... br />
    As if that were not enough, are you aware ... games under emulation - pity that all they can remember ... gave? Try to explain that to our brethren outside Italy ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu May 2004 Games
  • The old days and improving the Spectrum experience.I was reminded of this recently, by a thread about Mask... Back in the day, I used to have a DISCiPLE interface and had to make do with snapshots of…

    ...
    The Multiface & Genie were very helpful, I would've ... those little bytes of corruption were upon loading (which always ... there was practically no game that couldn't be converted. ( ... />
    I especially liked games that were just hard to play on ...
    Jmk Jmk May 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Taking a risk on gamesAn answer I just posted to another topic just got me thinking - about how back in the days of the speccy (esp the very early days) I could walk into …

    ... games @ ?2.50 a piece, that were almost always great! :)


    I know that Mastertronic, Codemasters, Atlantis etc. had ... too, but I always felt that you could rely on Firebird ... />
    It's a pity that British Telecom's way of ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers May 2004 Games
  • CodeMasters & US GoldIs there a reason that games by these companies aren't available to download? Are they available to buy on a CD from the companies themselves or some…

    ... is after some Capcom titles that were released by US Gold/Go ...
    Swainy Swainy May 2004 Games
  • WYE Compiler Infoi wonder that nobody knows about this masterpiece... for example games BLUE THUNDER or some of AUTOMATA games were compiled by this tool... it is lim…

    ... or not, but those games that were released by BLABY software LOOKED ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers June 2004 Development
  • A question for italian spectrum fansCiao ragazzi! Anni fa avevo una cassetta di "special program" per spectrum nella quale c'era un gioco chiamato "la casa di stanton". Il numero di "sp…

    ... /> ...stores most of the tapes that were sold along with magazines in ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi June 2004 Games
  • Last speccy game you ever played....................before packing the thing away and leaving your childhood behind. Mine was Where Time Stood Still, 1988 I think.

    this makes me remember a dialogue of PulpFiction =)

    The last I remember is Marauder, which took me hooked.I guess in 89-90.

    Before that were SoldierOfFortune, which got me even more hooked.
    judasEZT judasEZT June 2004 Games
  • Games that cannot be completed due to bugs - the definitive listIt would be nice if the community of WoS compiled a list of all the games that are known to be impossible to complete due to bugs. Perhaps one day, a…

    Two games that were bugged in 128k mode were Wonderboy (you could only get so far & then the main character started falling through the floor) and Elevator Action, which the bottom of the level become currupted.
    Swainy Swainy June 2004 Games
  • Games that cannot be completed due to bugs - the definitive listIt would be nice if the community of WoS compiled a list of all the games that are known to be impossible to complete due to bugs. Perhaps one day, a…

    ... :
    Two games that were bugged in 128k mode were Wonderboy (you could ... Action[/I], it is true that the graphics at the bottom ... the skyscraper look corrupted, but that does not prevent you from ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu June 2004 Games
  • QuickBASICQuickBASIC Emulation: Is it possible to declare and pass global variables throughout a program along with confine a local variable to just a module-…

    ... have programmed a MC routine that made it possible to built ... BASIC. It stored all variables that were called by the procedure, making ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP June 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • Early Speccy Memories ThreadHiya. Right Ok. I want to start a thread going here and I want to know all about your early days with speccys. I am 31 now. I got involved with spec…

    ... 8 bit computers that were sold around that time. Cause there were loads.
    were other like +2 and that but that was after ...
    Anyone think of anymore that was around in the shops ... you were rich).

    I think two things that sticks ...
    cjp_24 cjp_24 June 2004 Games
  • Early Speccy Memories ThreadHiya. Right Ok. I want to start a thread going here and I want to know all about your early days with speccys. I am 31 now. I got involved with spec…

    For ages before I got my Speccy in late 86, I used to use my friends 48k machine. At the time I had an Atari 2600 and I used to really envy my mate as the Speccy had some great games that were not available on the Atari.
    Swainy Swainy June 2004 Games
  • Early Speccy Memories ThreadHiya. Right Ok. I want to start a thread going here and I want to know all about your early days with speccys. I am 31 now. I got involved with spec…

    ... Finders Keepers. Yay! I completed that too but looking at the ... 8 bit computers that were sold around that time. Cause there were loads.
    were other like +2 and that but that was after ... you were rich).

    I think two things that sticks ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 June 2004 Games
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